Shoe-form.



, ITO-877,049. PATENTEDJANZI, 1908.

G. H. CLARK.

Y SHOE FORM.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 3. 1903.

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GEORGE E. omen-or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

' SHOE-FORM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1908.

Application filed July 3. 1903. Serial No. 164.105,

'being finished, polished, ironed, or displayed although it is obviousthat it may be used to hold a shoe inany making the same.

The invention consists in a divided shoeform comprising in combination afore-part and a rear part which are held together with a rocking andsliding joint by means of a spring-connector, and constructed: tosupport the shank of a shoe and release t e vamp-seam of such shoe whenthe form is bent or crippled forthe purpose of being withdrawn from thelatter.

Figure 1 shows" in side elevation a shoe formembod g this invention;Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the shoe form. Fig. 3 is a part of theprocess of sectional detail ofa portion of the form showing the. foe-part in the abnormal position, it will occupy when the shoe is beingwithdrawn, the front end of the heel part having dro ped below the topof the fore-part at the ball line to thereby materially reduce the ballmeasurement.

a represents the heel-part of the transverselydivided shoe form, and bthe forepart. The heel-part a extends from the heel to approximately theball line of the form, and is recessed upon its under side, at its frontend, to provide a forward extension 0. which is formed with an outwardlycurved engaging face a near its extremity. The

fore-part6 is recessed upon its up or side at its rear end, to receivethe forwar extension 0/ of the heel-part, and also to providearearwardextension which enters and fills the recess formed in said heelart. Inmaking the form and providing t e-extensions and recesses aforesaid, thefore part is merely separated from the heel-part on a line 2 whichextends from the top of the form, at a point approximately op osite theball and at or about the position 0 the vamp-seam of a shoe in arearward direction to a oint near the middle of the shank, or in ot erwords, from the top of the ballline to about/the middle of the shank,the line of severance being shown as curved, although it is notessential that it should be curved precisely as shown, although it isessential that the curvature should be such that an outwardlycurvedengaging face or is formed on the forward extension (1 of theheel-part near its I extremit and that the recess inthe fore' part at tis point should be correspondingly formed. The line of severance asherein shown crosses the waist line of the form at a point approximatelymidway its len th said 7 waist line being indicated by dotted lines 20.By providing the forward extension (1 with an outwardly curved engagingface, it will be seen that the parts a and b when moved one withrelation to the other will move on said enga ing face as a pivot, as

shown in Fig. 3, an that when thus moved the end of the forwardextension 0/ on the heel part will dro below the top of the fore partand the bal measurerncnt will be thus materially reduced. If theheel-part is held stationary the fore-part will be moved relative to theheel-part, as the shoe is with drawn, the forward end ofthe fore-partmovin ,upward, and if the heel-part is not so he d, and the form iswithdrawn from the shoe the rear end of the heel-part will he movedupward as the form is withdrawn; but in either instance the importantresult sought for is obtained, viz.: the reduction of the ballmeasurement by dropping the forward end of the heel-part below thefore-part at the top of the ball line, or thereabouts. Reducing themeasurement of the form at this point enables the shoe to be easilywithdrawn without straining, crackin tearing or wrinkling the vamp, andwit out breaking or wrinkling the shank. The portion of the fore partwhich extends to about the middle of the shank, as indicated in thedrawings, serves to sustain the shank of a shoe against injury orbreakage under the strain which is applied in causing the form to bendor cripple as ndicated inFig. 3 of the drawings.

Producing the forward extension a and its curved engagln face a bymerely severing the parts a, and results in producing a form which, whenthe parts occupy their proper a spiral spring 4 is contained in saidsockets, the ends of which are connected to therespecti've parts of theform at the bottoms of t e sockets or thereabouts. The entrances to thesockets 3 are elon ated, or made largeenoughto provide a suite 1eWorkingspaee for the spring as the fore-part moves relatively the onemay be moved with respect to the other, and also separated for a shortdistance as may be required, and thereafter restored to its normalposition. At the line of sever ance, both at the top and bottom of theform,

a hole is bored in the form, and into said.

holes dowel pins 5 are secured, which will be retainedv in place inconnection with one of the members of the form, and serve a wide for theother member; and also in the )ody portion a hole is bored into which adowel pin 10 issecured, the end of which is beveled and projects into ahole in the fore-part, said hole being made of suitable size and shapeto receive it. After the shoe has been withdrawn the spring connectionrestores the fore-part to its normal position.

Claims.

1. A shoe-form comprising two parts meeting in a joint extending from apoint over the ball to near the middle of the shank, and aspring-conncctor holding their meeting surfaces together and. permittingsuch sur faces to rock and also slide on each other when the form isbent or crippled.

2. A shoe-form comprising two parts meeting in a joint extending from apoint over the ball to near the middle of the shank, and aspring-connector holding their meeting surfaces together and permittingsuch surfaces to rock and also slide on each other when the form is bentor crippled, the said parts being constructed to support the shank andrelease the vamp-seam while the form. is bent or crippled. for thepurpose of being withdrawn from a shoe.

3. A shoe-form comprising two parts inec tsmote ing in a point extendingfrom a point over the ball tonear the middle of the shank, the foreparthaving a hole therein entering from its meeting surface, and theheel-part having a ters the said hole, and a springrcnnector holding themeeting-surfaces of said parts together and permitting such surfaces torock and also slide on each other when the form is bent or crippled. I,

4. A shoe fornr comprising, essentially, a heel-part, a fore-p art, anda spring connector and having the meeting portions of thesaid heel-partand fore part overlapped horizon= tally, with the forward portion of theheeh part overlying the rearward portion of the foropart, and having thetwo parts fitted togetl'ier. along a compound curve beginning at the topof the form at or about the place of the vamp-seam of a shoe. and.extending in an oblique direction rearward and downward at the underside of the form at or about the middle of the length of the shank 5. Aslioeforni com-prising, essentially, a lieehpart, a fore-part, andaspring-connector, having the meeting portions of said herd-part andfore-part overlapped horizontall and the forward extension of heel-partoverlying the rearward portion of the fore-part, with the said forwardextension formed with an outwardly curved engaging face near itsextremity and the fore-part recessed upon its upper side, at its rearend to receive the said face and also provide a rearward extension whichenters and fills a recess formed in said heel-part, and having, the twoparts "fitted together along a line beginning at the top of the form ator about the place of the vampseam of a shoe.

l n testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEO. 1L CLARK.

W i to esscs B. J. N ormss, U. B. DAVIS.

projecting dowel with beveled end whichen through the waistr'tioii andterminating

